Essential-Considerations.md

Considerations for Mobile Developers

I. Essential Foundational Concepts

• Types of Views and Layouts
  • How to implement them
  • When to use one over another
• Application Lifecycle
• Application Navigation
• Dynamic UI Management
• JSON Parsing
• Data Persistence
  • Local
    • SharedPreferences/NSUserDefaults
    • Local device database
    • On-device file storage
  • Cloud database
• Network Requests
• Integration of Third-Party Libraries

II. Common Mobile Architectures

• MVC (Model-View-Controller)
• MVP (Model-View-Presenter)
• MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel)
• VIPER (View, Interactor, Presenter, Entity, Router)
• MVI (Model-View-Intent)
• RIBs (Router-Interactor-Builder)

III. Questions to Think About

Product

• What problems does my app attempt to solve?

UI/UX

• How can I best maintain parity between my Android and iOS versions?
• How can I best align with the native design guidelines specific to each platform?
• How does my UI appear on different screen sizes?
• What am I doing to make my app accessible for all users?
• What methods should I use to implement my UI?
  • XML/Interface Builder
  • Programmatic
  • Declarative (Jetpack Compose/SwiftUI)

Technical

• What range of devices and OS versions should my app target?
• How am I ensuring that my app is the least intensive on battery life as it can be?
• How am I accounting for situations of low or no network connectivity?
• How am I accounting for user data privacy?
• What measures am I taking to prevent fatal crashes in my app?
• How should I structure my code architecture?
• Should I retrieve my app's data from local device storage or from a server?